Reverie Meaning
/ˈɹɛvəɹi/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.
nounAn extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.
Sentence Examples
Tom interrupted her reverie.
Tom snapped out of his reverie.
It's a psychedelic reverie of patterns and colors.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Drinking chamomile tea helped her drift into a pleasant ____ before bed.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She was lost in a pleasant ____ about her childhood when the phone rang and brought her back to reality.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree French rêveriebor. English reverie Borrowed from French rêverie.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"If you rouse from your reverie, you are restless and agitated; your eye wanders round in one perpetual search; and if, perchance, as has happened once or twice, he has only passed in the distance, your eye brightens, your cheek flushes crimson, and your whole frame quivers with uncontrollable emotion!"
— 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Conversation after Breakfast”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 77:
"we sat / But spoke not, rapt in nameless reverie, […]"
— 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess, Canto VII, lines 107-108:
"Your reverie is over: nothing bright can last, not even dreams; and so your figures are all gone, your fairy realm obliterated - nothing lives but the recollection of a shadow!"
— 1854, John Esten Cooke, The Youth of Jefferson, Or, A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764, page 129:
"Within the branching shade of Reverie / Dreams even may spring till autumn; yet none be / Like woman's budding day-dream spirit-fann'd."
— 1899, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “The Day-Dream”, in Pictures & poems:
"He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine."
— 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 3, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Drinking chamomile tea helped her drift into a pleasant ____ before bed.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She was lost in a pleasant ____ about her childhood when the phone rang and brought her back to reality.